The evidence showed that at approximately 6 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2007, Thomas Simon, Cheryle Simon, George Wiggins and Mary Elizabeth Wiggins were returning to Fleetwood after a day of Christmas shopping in Winston-Salem. Thomas Simon was driving his 2002 ...

Tagged with: Insurance Motor Vehicle Negligence Trucking Wilkes County wreck Wrongful Death

A North Carolina mother and child were killed in a 2009 commercial truck crash.  There were allegations of truck driver inattention and contributory negligence against the mother. The grandmother of minor child was the sole heir to both estates. Mediated ...

Tagged with: auto accident Contributory Negligence Truck Driver Trucking wreck Wrongful Death

On Oct. 22, 2008, at approximately 6:52 a.m. – before sunrise – the plaintiff’s husband was driving his 2000 Toyota automobile in the middle lane in a generally westerly direction on N.C. Highway 49 approaching the intersection of Kee Lane ...

Tagged with: accident auto accident Cabarrus County tractor-trailer Trucking wreck Wrongful Death

Plaintiff was a passenger in an auto stopped on the shoulder of an interstate highway at night when the defendant’s semi truck ran into the vehicle from behind. Plaintiff was in a vegetative state for approximately one year and ultimately ...

Tagged with: accident Alamance County auto accident personal injury tractor-trailer Trucking wreck Wrongful Death

It was a cold day in December 2008 when Mike Sprinkle backed his tanker truck up to the loading dock at an asphalt plant in Greensboro and, like he had done many times before, climbed a ladder to the top of the truck and guided a pipe into an opening for a refill. An employee of the plant, Hammaker East, told Sprinkle that the pipes were clogged and it would be a short while before the asphalt started flowing. But when the clog was dislodged, the burst of asphalt was so strong it caused the pipe to fly out of the truck, spraying asphalt all over Sprinkle and knocking him to the ground, shattering his knee in the process.

Tagged with: Contributory Negligence Forsyth County personal injury third-party Truck Driver Trucking

The plaintiff was a 24 year old male who had served five years in the Marines. About 11 months after being discharged from the Marines, the plaintiff was on his motorcycle when a commercial vehicle made a left-hand turn into ...

Tagged with: Fractures motor vehicle Motorcycle Accident Trucking wreck

Defendant-truck driver was driving a 2003 Freightliner tractor pulling an enclosed van semi-trailer north/northwest on N.C. 147 in Durham. Plaintiff Jane Doe, age 60 and an oncology nurse at Duke University Medical Center, was driving her 2000 Toyota Camry on ...

Tagged with: accident auto accident Durham County Fractures Lacerations personal injury tractor-trailer Truck Driver Trucking wreck

Plaintiffs, a 47-year-old mother, her 11-year-old daughter and her 7-year-old son, were struck by a dump truck on the driver’s side of their minivan as the plaintiff-mother attempted to turn left on a green turn arrow from a multi-lane road ...

Tagged with: auto accident dwi Fractures Lacerations motor vehicle Truck Driver Trucking Wake County wreck

Plaintiff was employed full-time and largely self-sufficient prior to the accident, living independently, with no government assistance or services. Plaintiff was working approximately 40 hours per week for a regional grocery chain, but had no health insurance. Plaintiff rode his ...

Tagged with: accident auto accident Buncombe County Fractures motor vehicle Motorcycle Accident Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Trucking wreck

Plaintiff, a single 35-year-old white male, was seriously injured in an automobile accident on Feb. 11, 2007, in Charlotte when an employee of a commercial trucking company suddenly turned his tractor-trailer left into the path of plaintiff’s oncoming vehicle, impacting and ...

Tagged with: auto accident Fractures Trucking wreck